Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
BARRY MANILOWTouring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
BARRY MANILOWI couldn’t bear the road anymore. I’m sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes – I wanted to go home.
BARRY MANILOWMy goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
BARRY MANILOWI am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive…And since I’m a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.
BARRY MANILOWFor a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
BARRY MANILOWEvery few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
BARRY MANILOWMy style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
BARRY MANILOWI believe in my writing.
BARRY MANILOWI keep reading about people who want to be famous – it’s not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.
BARRY MANILOWIf I Should Love Again’ – I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn’t a single and people didn’t really know about it, but it’s a beautiful song and that’s part of what I’m loving.
BARRY MANILOWMisfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
BARRY MANILOWEverything you say and do is having an impact on others.
BARRY MANILOWI love any opportunity I have to make music.
BARRY MANILOWEverybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
BARRY MANILOWHere’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
BARRY MANILOWI believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.
BARRY MANILOW